Thursday, December 18, 2014

Well, honestly, my very favorite Christmas song might very well be "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses -- it wasn't Christmas for me in the 1980s until D.C.'s WHFS played it -- but "Father Christmas" by The Kinks runs a very close second. And it rocks a helluva lot harder.

As do Connections. These cats from Ohio have quickly established themselves as one of my favorite bands in a very short span of time. They are cranking out the rock on their new 5 Imaginary Boys EP, out now on HoZac Records. It's also up on iTunes too.

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Born in Washington, D.C., in 1967, I spent most of my life in Maryland before I moved to Hong Kong at the very end of 2011. I worked in Kowloon, and lived on Lamma Island, for nearly 3 years, and then I moved back to Maryland with my wife at the end of August 2014. When I was younger, I worked in 3 record stores in College Park, Maryland, from 1987 to 1990 and those jobs gave me a lot of joy, as well as a musical education. I was once a huge fan of the cinema of Hong Kong, especially Shaw Brothers titles. An Anglophile, I still gravitate to British films and music. My youth was spent on Marvel comics, and Starlog and Famous Monsters magazines; Universal and Hammer horror movies; the work of Ray Harryhausen; classic American films of the 1930s; Hanna-Barbera cartoons; music from the glory days of American AM radio; lousy TV reruns; Mego toys; and Godzilla flicks...